Photos of the Day: February 16, 2015

A selection of some of the best photos from around the world made available on February 16, 2015 by the Associated Press.

Egyptian Coptic men mourn for 21 Coptic Egyptian men seized by Islamic State militants in the central city of Sirte, Libya, more than a month ago at the Virgin Mary Church in the village of el-Aour, near Minya, 220 kilometers (135 miles) south of Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. Egyptian warplanes struck Islamic State targets in Libya on Monday in swift retribution for the extremists’ beheading of a group of Egyptian Christian hostages on a beach, shown in a grisly online video released hours earlier. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Philadelphia firefighters work the scene of an overnight blaze in west Philadelphia, Monday Feb. 16, 2015, as icicles hang from where the water from their hoses froze. Bone-chilling, single digit temperatures have gripped the region, prompting the closure of all parish and regional Catholic elementary schools in the city of Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)

Performers from the Mocidade samba school greet spectators from their float during the Carnival parade at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Presidential re-enactor C. Roger Cooper, portraying George Washington, takes a bite of jerky while waiting to take photos with visitors during President’s Day celebrations at the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., on Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

A fire fighter fights a fire on the lower part of Table Mountain near a residential area in Cape Town, South Africa, Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. The wildfire broke out near to Cape Town’s central business district. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)

Armani, a xoloitzcuintli, is stands in the benching area of the Westminster Kennel Club dog show Monday, Feb. 16, 2015, at Madison Square Garden in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

University of Kentucky students Courtney Wiseman, left, and Abby Lerner walk home after studying on campus even as classes were canceled for the day in Lexington, Ky., Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. Central Kentucky received significant snow accumulations as a winter storm moved through the region on Monday. (AP Photo/David Stephenson)

A fire burns Monday, Feb. 16, 2015, after a train derailment near Charleston, W.Va. Nearby residents were told to evacuate as state emergency response and environmental officials headed to the scene. (AP Photo/The Register-Herald, Steve Keenan)

Models wait to have the nail art done by competitors judged after a fun sculpture timed event at the Canada Nail Cup in Vancouver, Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. Nail artists competed in multiple categories at the event, which according to organizers is the only nail competition in the country. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Darryl Dyck)

A performer from the Portela samba school sings as she parades in the Carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Villanova students cheer during a free-throw by Villanova’s Darrun Hilliard II during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Seton Hall, Monday, Feb. 16, 2015, in Villanova, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

A lonely clown waits alone early morning for the carnival parade in Cologne, western Germany, Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. The foolish street spectacles in the carnival center Cologne, watched by hundreds of thousands of revelers, are the highlights in Germany’s carnival season on Rosemonday. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Matt Dayhoff started as a photographer for the Journal Star in 1992 shortly after graduating from the Ohio University School of Visual Communications. In 2009, he moved into the newsroom as an online editor and producer and is now responsible for helping manage and edit much of the editorial content on pjstar.com.